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Warren Buffett - The Big Four, High Conviction Stocks

Guru
Warren Buffett
once said, "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." Here's
a current look at Berkshire Hathaway
(
BRK.A
)
(
BRK.B
)
's high conviction stocks the value investor keeps buying.

Warren Buffett
keeps buying DTV. He owns 34,037,500 shares of Directv (
DTV
), valued at $1.71 billion as of Dec. 31, 2012. DTV accounts for
2.3% of his equity portfolio. Buffett increased his position in
the Sept. 30, 2012 quarter by 3.99% and again in the December 31,
2012 quarter by 15.16%.

Providing digital television entertainment in the U.S. and Latin
America, Directv has a market cap of $29.91 billion; its shares
were traded around $52.19 with a P/E ratio of 11.4 and P/S ratio
of 1.1. Directv had an annual average earnings growth of 28.7%
over the past five years.

Buffett's holding history of DTV shows a steady increase since
third quarter of 2011:

As the largest owner of the kidney dialysis provider DaVita
HealthCare Partners (
DVA
), Buffett made his eighth add of this high-growth company on
March 4, 2013, bringing his total current DVA shares to
14,973,906. The current stock price is $118.72, with a change
from average down 1%.

The following stocks were named as the "Big Four" in Berkshire
Hathaway's most recent shareholder letter:

Buffett's number one high conviction stock is currently Wells
Fargo & Co. (
WFC
), with a portfolio weighting of 20%, and 439,857,861 shares, as
of Dec. 31, 2012.

The largest mortgage lender in the U.S., Wells Fargo &
Company (
WFC
) serves one out of three households in the U.S., and reaches 35
countries. Buffett has cited the bank's excellent management
during the industry implosion.

Wells Fargo & Co. has a market cap of $187.38 billion. The
current share price is $36.85 with a P/E ratio of 10.6 and P/S
ratio of 2.2. Wells Fargo & Co. has had revenue growth of 9%
(annual rates per share) over the past ten years.

Buffett keeps buying International Business Machines Corp. (
IBM
), another high conviction stock, with a portfolio weighting of
17.3%, for 68,115,484 shares, as of Dec. 31, 2012.

Praising IBM leadership for meeting their goals, Buffett has
called their financial management "...brilliant, particularly in
recent years as the company's financial flexibility improved."

IBM has a market cap of $227.92 billion; its current share price
is $215.31, with a P/E ratio of 14.1 and P/S ratio of 2.2. The
dividend yield of IBM stocks is 1.7%. IBM had an annual average
earnings growth of 12.1% over the past 10 years.

A world-wide brand, the Coca-Cola Company (
KO
) had an annual average earnings growth of 9.6% over the past ten
years. The Coca-Cola Co. has a market cap of $172.16 billion; its
shares were traded at around $38.63 with a P/E ratio of 19.6 and
P/S ratio of 3.7.

Another of Buffett's "Big Four," American Express Co. (
AXP
), makes up 11.6% of his portfolio, holding 151,610,700 shares,
valued at $8.62 billion as of Sept. 30, 2012.

American Express Co. has a market cap of $72.13 billion; its
share price is currently $65.35, with a P/E ratio of 16.8 and P/S
ratio of 2.359. American Express Co. shows revenue growth at 3.2%
over ten years (annual rates per share), with EBITDA growth of 5%
over ten years.

In the first week of March 2013, Buffett reported to shareholders
that the Berkshire Hathaway book value increased by 14.4% in
2012, compared with the 16% total gain of the S&P 500. For
the years from 1965 to 2012 (48 years), Berkshire's book value
gained 19.7% a year, while the S&P 500 gained 9.4% a year.
The company has a market cap of $254.24 billion.

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